Concrete roof-tile.



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APPLICATION FILED MAR. e, 1911.

Patented June 25, 1912.

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FRED LATULIP, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANTOINE F. VADEBONCEUR, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CONCRETE ROOF-TILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 25, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED LATULIP, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Concrete Roof-Tile, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in concrete corner tiles somewhat similar to that shown in my Patent #907,824 issued December 29, 1908 except that it is especially adapted for edge finishing of cornices and gutters of roofs and olgllier places where such finishing is desira e.

The main object, therefore, is not only to provide the overlapping ends and edges of the tile with looking members for interlock ing engagement with each other and with the rafters or furring strips but also to provide the tile with pendant lengthwise finishing flanges extending along one edge thereof so as to lie in coincident planes with their lower edges in straight lines for the purpose of giving a better edge finish to the roofing or siding and at the same time forming a water and air-tight joint with the main body of the roof or cornice.

Other objects and uses will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of a roof show ing a series of my improved tiles assembled thereon. F ig. 2 is an end view of a portion of a gable roof showing in more detail the manner of applying the tiles including the cornice tiles. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of a series of assembled tiles showing a pair of rafters in dotted lines and auxiliary lugs coacting with the cornice flanges to hold the tile against relative lateral movement on the roof. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an inverted left hand tile. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an inverted half-tile for right hand cornice. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a right hand cornice tile. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a portion of a roof gutter or valley showing the manner of applying the gutter and my improved tile thereto. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the valley tiles shown in Fig. 7

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, I have shown a series of plain roof tile 1 and another series of cornice tile 2 adapted to be used in connection with the plain tile 1 for finishing the edge or cornice of the tile roofing, the ridge of the roof being capped by a series of what may be termed ridge tile 3. These tiles are preferably made of cement or concrete of uniform shape and size except where necessary to use halfwidths and are assembled upon the roof in such manner as to break joints similarto laying slate or shingle roofing, each tile consisting of a substantially thin flat plate or main body -4:- having one of its longitudinal edges provided with a pendant flange 5- running parallel with its opposite edge but somewhat shorter than the main body as will be hereinafter more fully described. The main body or plate 4:- may be reinforced by one or more lengthwise ribs 6 and a suitable metal reinforcement -7 embedded therein and preferably extending into the pendant flange 5-- so as to strengthen and prevent breakage of the corner.

The plain tile -1- forming the main body of the roofing are very similar to those shown and described in my patent referred to except that the interlocking transverse ribs are closer to .the ends to reduce the amount of lap and thereby exposing by far the greater portion of the tile to the weather and permitting a considerably greater area to becovered with the same number of tiles. For this purpose each of the tiles 1 is provided near one end with a pendant trans verse rib S on the lower side thereof close to such end, while the upper end is provided with a corresponding transverse groove -9 in the upper face thereof and substantially the same distance from the upper end as the rib 8 is from the lower end so that when the rib -8 of one tile is seated in the corresponding groove --9 of the underlying tile, the length of lap is approximately equal to twice the distance from the end of the til to the corresponding rib 8 or to the corresponding groove 9.

The opposite lengthwise edges of the tiles 1 are provided respectively in their lower and upper sides with lengthwise grooves forming laps l0-- which are comparatively narrow transversely, the contiguous faces of the lapping portions -10- being beveled or undercut transversely to establish an interlocking connection between adjacent tiles and thereby prevent their relative lateral movement. The inner edges of the cornice tile 2 are also formed with similar lapping portions 10- interlocking with the corresponding edges of the plain tile 1 but the main feature of the invention lies in providing these tile with pendant edge finishing flanges +5" as used for cornice or with similar pendant flanges 5 for giving a finish to the gutter or valley tile shown in Figs. 7 and 8. These tiles are additionally held in place upon the roof against downward displacement by shoulders 12 which are formed integrally on the underside of the upper ends of the tile and interlock with suitable furring strips 13 as best seen in Figs. 2, t and 8. As an additional means for holding the cornice and gutter tile against lateral displacement from the roof, they are provided with one or more integral pendant lugs or flanges 14: spaced apart from the lengthwise edge flanges 5- or -5- a distance corresponding to or slightly greater than the thickness of one of the rafters as -a so that the flanges 5 or 5 will engage one side of a rafter, while the lugs or flanges 14 will engage the opposite side of the same rafter, thereby holding the tile against relative movement thereon.

It will be observed upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2 that in laying the tile upon the roof, each course will be disposed at an angle instead of parallel with the rafters, that is, the lower ends of the tile will be spaced apart a greater distance from the rafter than their upper ends, a distance corresponding to the thickness of the underlapping portion of the adjacent tile and in order that the lower edges of the flanges 5 of the cornice tile may lie in the same straight line, they are tapered from their lower ends toward their upper ends at substantially the same angle to the main body of the tile as that between the tile and upper edge of the rafters, as more clearly shown at the right of Fig. 2. These pendant flanges 5 of the cornice tile are somewhat shorter than the length of the main body, the difference in length being substantially equal to the degree of the end lap of the tiles one upon the other, thereby forming a recess 15- at the upper end of the flange 5 for receiving the lower end of the adjacent flange and permitting the flanges of adjacent tile to abut end to end and to lie in the same vertical plane. As more clearly shown in Fig. 2, the abutting ends of these flanges are beveled or inclined so as to overlap or partially interlock one with the other to aid in holding the assembled cornic tiles in place and at the same time rendering the joints substantially water proof and air tight. In practice the wider end of the flange is preferably recessed at 16 to receive the smaller end of the next adjacent flange, thereby permitting the superposed portions of the lower end of the cornice tile to overlap upon the upper ends of the next adjacent tile.

It is apparent from the foregoing description that the flanges 5 of the cornice tile overturn upon the upper edges of the cornice rafters or frieze and lie in substantially the same vertical plane to give the desired finish to the edge of the roofing and also to establish a weather tight joint with this portion of the building structure, while the flanges 5- of the gutter tile shown in Figs. 7 and 8 perform a similar function at this part of the building.

In like manner I have shown a series of ridge tile 8 having end flanges '18 abutting against the adjacent ends of the flanges -5- of the cornice tile, said ridge tile being also provided with ribs -8 for interfltting engagement in the grooves 9 in the upper ends of the adjacent tiles -1 and 2--, the meeting ends of the ridge tile -3 being provided with interlocking tongues and grooves as more clearly shown in Fig. 1 to hold them against relative endwlse movement.

The valley tile as shown in Fig. 7 are arranged at opposite sides of the valley rafter as a and have their flanges 5- and -1 interlocked with opposite sides of furring strips -17 which are secured to the upper faces of the rafter a at opposite sides of and parallel with the valley rafter -a-. Prior to the laying of the valley tile, the valley is covered with a tin or other metallic gutter 20 extend ing across the upper face of the valley rafter a and adjacent ends of the rafter a and over the upper face of the furrmg strips 17- so' as to underlie the firhanging portions of the valley tile It will be observed that these difl'erent forms of tiles are provided with similar means for locking them together and that the cornice and valley tiles are also pro vided with additional locking members coacting with the finishing flanges for further holding them in operative position against shifting movement on the roof.

hat- I claim is:

An edge finishing tile having one end thereof provided with a transverse groove in its upper face and its other end provided with a transverse rib upon its lower face, both the said groove and rib being spaced from the ends of the tile, a length-wise flange provided upon one longitudinal edge of the tile and extending from a point at the inner side of the groove to a point beyond the rib, the said flange tapering from the rib and toward the said groove, a

longitudinal groove extending the entire tile adapted to interlock With other similar length of the tile edge upon the side thereof tiles when positioned in assembled relations. 10

opposite to the flange, a longitudinally-po- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set sitioned depending lug upon the under side my hand on this 27th day of February 1911. of said tile and slightly spaced from the FRED LATULIP. depending flange thereof, a terminal shoul- Witnesses:

der upon the lower face of said tile at the H. E. CHASE,

end thereof opposite to the said rib, and said E. F. SPEAKING.

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